Bondi Says Government Will Target Those Who Use Hate Speech

 

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life

My Note: This weekend Charlie Kirk will be exalted as a youth energizer.  However, as Bondi pledges to target hate speech, her president will likely elevate Kirk's hate speech to apocalyptical levels. There will be vows to continue his work. Let's take an objective look. 

Should I be speaking out?  I must.  Hate, not science, drove his anti-trans ideology. Will you speak up even if this blog gets cancelled over this post?

Few are braving the consequences of speaking truth to power after the Charlie Kirk killing.  i.e. Professors are losing their classrooms, News editors, Columnist and employees are being fired. "Erin In The Morning" is a blog bravely speaking out:

By Erin Reed

Charlie Kirk

Political violence is corrosive and we must not excuse it—killing Charlie Kirk was horrific. But we also must not sanitize the memory of a man who wished harm on those he disagreed with, and who spread a message of hate to anyone willing to listen or pay him to so. We can denounce the violent killing of Charlie Kirk without praising his abhorrent legacy.

Later in 2023, Kirk took the stage at a megachurch to unleash a tirade against transgender people. He called them an “abomination” and a “throbbing middle finger to God,” before turning his venom on swimmer Lia Thomas, citing scripture to brand her the same. It was the kind of hate-speech pulpitry we remember from the most virulent anti-LGBTQ+ preachers of the 1990s—rhetoric meant not to persuade but to dehumanize. This is Charlie Kirk’s legacy: a campaign to eradicate entire classes of people from public life. It is not dialogue, and it is certainly not something that deserves to be honored or continued.

You can stand against political violence, as anyone with a conscience does. You can call for a politics rooted in kindness—something we desperately lack today, and something I know the absence of intimately as a transgender person who has lived under the weight of rhetoric like Kirk’s. You can and should condemn killing over speech. But to ask that people carry on Kirk’s “work” is a bridge too far. We must not valorize his life. We must not sanitize his hate. Not now. Not ever.

Charlie Kirk declares that "the transgender thing happening in America" is "a throbbing middle finger to God" and then proceeds to deadname Lia Thomas and tell her "you're an abomination to God" while the congregation applauds.  Watch the video:   (https://x.com/i/status/1701259614077989121)